Just some campy trailers I found whilst scouring the internets.

First, historical inaccuracies abound in:

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From “Netflix on PlayStation 3: The Great Sony-Microsoft Equalizer?“:

Surprising no one, really, streaming video maven Netflix will roll out its online TV and movie rental service to North America’s nearly 10 million PlayStation 3 owners in November. Sony will announce the deal later today in an action that knocks one of the Xbox 360’s “exclusive” pillars out from under Microsoft’s games platform.

Another knock: It’ll be free to PS3 owners. Contrast with the $50 a year fee Microsoft charges for access to its “Gold” tier Xbox LIVE services, one of the principal being Netflix access. You’ll still need an independent Netflix membership, of course, which starts at $9 a month and can run up to $17 depending on the number of movies you care to check out simultaneously.

This Christmas season is shaping up to be real interesting for Sony.

Some more links:
Free Netflix Movies On PS3 Is A Game-Changer
PlayStation 3 Adds Netflix to Its Queue This November
Next up: movies streaming to the door of your microwave oven

This is the best Chris Farley movie ever. Enjoy!

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I don’t quite believe it myself.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox Searchlight is in talks to produce a biopic about the seminal punk rock band The Ramones. The film, which would be based on the forthcoming memoir “I Slept With Joey Ramone” by Ramone’s brother Mickey Leigh and punk journalist Legs McNeil, would focus on the origins of the band, each member’s myriad problems with drugs (and with each other), and the group’s considerable impact on modern popular music.

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From “THE SCIENCE OF ‘SURROGATES’“:

So “Surrogates” is meant as pure science fiction, right? Wrong. The filmmakers and futurists behind the movie say they’re aiming for an only slightly enhanced version of present-day trends.

“In the near future, robots are going to start to look like humans,” said James Canton, founder of the San Francisco-based Institute for Global Futures. “I think within 10 years you’re going to have the world of the surrogates.”

You don’t even have to wait 10 years to experience the kind of virtual life that eventually goes so wrong in “Surrogates,” said the film’s director, “Terminator 3″ veteran Jonathan Mostow.

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…3-D glasses not available in all areas.

From “3-D television expected to come to homes in 2010“:

Sony and Panasonic say they will release home 3-D television systems in 2010; Mitsubishi and JVC are reported to be working on similar products.

“TV finally becomes real” in three dimensions, said Robert Perry, an executive vice president at Panasonic. “You’re in it. It’s the next frontier.”

Perry compared the 3-D transition to the switch from black-and-white to color television and the shift from standard- to high-definition images. See what 3-D TV demos look like »

ESPN is test-recording some sporting events in 3-D, using cameras with two sets of lenses, which would make football players appear to jump out of home television screens during live 3-D broadcasts.

And, although television makers haven’t released specifics, the price of 3-D TV — which requires a new television, broadcasting content and 3-D glasses — is not expected to be substantially higher than some high-definition televisions on the market now.

Still, there are skeptics who say that 3-D is not ready for prime-time home viewing.

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Brandon Hardesty is a guy who does movie reenactments. He does them hilariously well. He’s also appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Check out his YouTube channel.

Here are some of his top reenactments:

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A couple of us may have been extras in this:

From “Zombies Invade Governors Island“:

Governors Island’s most recent claim to fame might be Prince Harry and his polo cronies, but this past weekend it welcomed guests somewhat, er, less refined: zombies. On Sunday afternoon, volunteers hopped the ferry over to the island to film the final scene of a movie called Isle of the Dead, produced by Creative Time and an art collective known as the Bruce High Quality Foundation or “the Bruces,” as they refer to themselves.

Isle of the Dead has a pretty simple plot line — the credit crisis kills the art world and its players, who reemerge as zombies in an alternative movement inspired only by art from the past. The film begins with sweeping shots of dead bodies splayed out in front of the Met, Guggenheim, and Whitney museums, plus a strip of galleries in Chelsea, and ends with a zombie uprising on Governors Island, where the zombies congregate for a sing-along to the Bryan Adams classic, “Summer of ‘69.”

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Here’s a little something extra for those of you who enjoyed my first post on a similar topic, specifically the “redemption hero.” I mentioned briefly that a lot of ideas borrow from classic literature and mythology; for this post I’m going to expand on that idea with the “journey” story.

In my previous post, I briefly mentioned “The Odyssey,” which is an epic poem about a journey (even the word “odyssey” means journey) and is the most basic of all stories - someone or a group of people have to go somewhere. That’s it. You can’t get simpler than that.

Before we get started, I’d like to zip over to the East. Don’t worry now, I’ll take you back.

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